Washington Journal
CSPAN (CSPAN) National Programming, DMA: 0
08:30AM EDT May 21 2008
Programming Type: Talk News Politics Interview Public affairs

use those plants without using fossil fuels. the first resistance i had was oil companies and propane gas companies. there has to be a way to let the technology out but at the same time guarantee the price of the stock so that there cannot be printed selling on wall street. host: texas, go ahead. caller: this is crazy. you are sending our jobs to india, taiwan, and we cannot believe that they are using more oil. guest: he is talking about the global price of oil. we did a hearing with all of our oil company executives in the our select committee on energy and environment. the global price of oil and impact - if you look at 1977 when my first child was born and today, the global impact has gone up as well as domestic demand. that is why we have a supply issue. we are importing 60% of the fuel we use every day. canada and mexico are our two largest trading partners. we need to get that amount that we are importing down. it does make us look shortsighted. globally, and demand has come up. the first caller using naval bases. there has been a good bit of discussion in you will hear about individual things, putting a plant on an old military facility. those are all good ideas orthy of discussion and looking at how we get our arms around this, it will take many different coming incremental steps. there is no silver bullet. we do know that americans have the ability to solve this problem and government has been a wall that we need to move out of the way. host: representative marsha blackburn, thank you. coming up we will hear from dr. elias zerhouni who heads the national institutes of health. we will talk about programs that they may sponsor.